Vanessa Bell
Subtitle: portrait of a Bloomsbury artist
By: Frances Spalding
Edition: New paperback edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781784532413
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Bloomsbury group; Women artists; Biography; Artists
Description: Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet until this authorised biography was written, she largely remained a silent and inscrutable figure. Tantalising glimpses of her life appeared mainly in her sister, Virginia Woolf's, letters, diaries and biography. Frances Spalding here draws upon a mass of unpublished documents to reveal Bell's extraordinary achievements in both her art and her life. She recounts in vivid detail how Bell's move into the Bloomsbury Group and her exposure to Paris and the radical art of the Post-Impressionists ran parallel with an increasingly unorthodox personal life that spun in convoluted threads between her marriage to Clive Bell, her affair with Roger Fry, her friendship with Duncan Grant and relationship with her sister.
Notes: Includes a new preface by the author.

Originally published : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Always the eldest, 1879-1895; title: Mrs. Young's evening dress, 1895-1904; title: Changing places, 1904-1906; title: Mr and Mrs Clive Bell, 1907-1909; title: Petticoats over windmills, 1910-1912; title: Asheham, 1912-1914; title: Granite and rainbow, 1914-1916; title: One among three, 1916-1918; title: At home and abroad, 1919-1926; title: Charleston in Frances, 1927-1930; title: High yellow, 1930-1934; title: Between Bloomsbury and China, 1935-1937; title: Bitter odds, 1937-1945; title: The attic studio, 1945-1961.